In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Genesis 8:2 - Tree of Life Version Also the sources of the deep and the windows of the skies were closed up, and the rain from the sky was held back. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked, American Standard Version (1901) the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Common English Bible The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain. Catholic Public Domain Version And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up: and the rain from heaven was restrained. |
In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened.
For in seven more days, I am going to make it rain upon the land forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all existence that I made from the face of the ground.
“Have you gone to the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Who can count the clouds by wisdom, or tip over the water jars of heaven,
when He established the skies above, when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,
saying: “From my distress I cried to Adonai and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help and you heard my voice.
For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”